Well, it looks like Lollapalosa is cancelled once again! I can tell them why – tickets are too high!
I have a busy week ahead of me: Dinner and Franz Ferdinand tonight, Sasha on Wednesday night, Skinny Puppy on Friday night, and maybe a party on Saturday night…
I am missing a show I am putting on tonight to see Franz Ferdinand:
Euphonic Productions
presents
Lucas Niggli’s ZOOM
plus special guests
Jeff Crompton & Rob Rushin
9pm, Tues, June 22
$5 at the door
Eyedrum
290 MLK Jr. Drive, Suite 8
404-522-0655
www.eyedrum.org
Philipp Schaufelberger – guitar
Nils Wogram – trombone
Lucas Niggli – drums & percussion
The trio of the Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli unifies three strong-willed musicians of the young generation who have been influenced by the most varied musics and who simultaneously blaze their own path through a new obscurity that the Postmodern and current tendencies have triggered. With ZOOM, Lucas Niggli can unify his numerous likings for Jazz (the drive, the energy, and the idiomatic-improvisatory freedom) as well as that for new music (tonal and interpretational culture). With ultimate
concentration, this small and agile group speeds through the heights and depths of today’s music: here a nod at tradition, there a jump into the unknown, always up to tricks, all of which guarantees that seriousness will never turn into solemnity. The compositions of Lucas Niggli are tonally balanced, play with the most various dramatuguries and energies, are relaxed and simultaneously highly energetic. The joy of playing, embedded in a beautiful “group chemistry” allows the pieces to ring out freshly again and again. Lightness is a central point in Lucas Niggli’s music. Via this “filigreed” grouping with two tenor
instruments (trombone and guitar) and drums, as well as with the excellent musicians Philipp Schaufelberger (a great tonal aesthete) and Nils Wogram (THE complete trombonist), complex, even abstract passages sound light as a feather.
“Highly inspired flights of the imagination: ZOOM”
– Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland
“Three artists on a high wire”
– Tages Anzeiger, Switzerland.
So I hope they are good. I also feel bad deserting Milton tonight as he has been sick, but I gave him a months notice…